Victoire de Castellane's Fleurs d'excès

Designer Victoire de Castellane discusses the inspiration behind the pieces of her Fleurs d'excès collection.

It begins with the end: Heroina Romanticam Dolorosa is on the mortuary slab, in the process of dying from an overdose. Her life is ebbing; she is getting cold. There is a part of her that still glimmers, a little bit of life remaining, but her blood is draining away.